Howdy!
I'm glad to see the list up and running again as well as occasional traffic too.
I have a simple programming question. I've been working on a project using linux where I've been controlling a Kantronics Packet Communicator 3 using a Perl script with a Serial library. Programatically, the script and serial interface seem to control the TNC well enough using the standard TNC commandset.
The problem I'm having is that I don't want to use the standard TNC commands for this application. It seems to me that I want to use KISS mode. I'm fully willing to read/write the data stream, handle the acknowledgements, etc. myself as part of the program.
The problem I have is that when I enter KISS mode, the TNC hangs. I no longer can control the TNC, break out of the connection, etc. The only way I've discovered to break out of KISS mode is to do a hard reset of the TNC, which isn't acceptable for this application.
I was wondering if there is an API that I haven't discovered yet or worse, there is no way to control the TNC in KISS mode via serial connection. I could write my program in C if I have to but would rather stay with a Perl/Serial interface for this particular application.
Any advice or pointers with KISS programming would surely be appreciated.
73,
-Brett W6BAC
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